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PDP-8:
Also made a classic mistake when whipping up a similar system on another box:
Now that I'm running xorg, I forgot to remove xvesa from the onboot.lst file. Ooops!
Also learned on this box that graphics-kernel may not like being immediately loaded so late in the process when downloading and installing from the repos. System hung, video goes nuts, had to do the 3-finger-salute or hard-shutdown, and duly making the filesystems dirty.
From now on, whenever I want to install graphics-kernel, I'll merely tell APPS to just download it ONLY, and then MANUALLY enable it by placing it at the top of the onboot.lst file and then rebooting.
No more trashed filesystems. :)
PDP-8:
The final touch!
Even though I run a light environment, now that I'm using Xorg to cut my large screen res in half, might as well tweak it a little more.
Here is what I appended to my .Xdefaults file:
--- Code: ---Xft.dpi: 100.0
Xft.autohint: false
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
--- End code ---
I'll have to study the ArchLinux wiki again about font setting, but this does seem to bring that slightly sharper edge to a res that has been cut in half by a
custom modeline. And I could swear that tweaking my dpi from the default of 96 to 100 helped too.
But I've been staring at the screen so long that this might be just wishful thinking. :)
PDP-8:
I changed my modeline. Apparently cvt is more accurate than the slightly older gtf calculator for modern displays.
Like anything after 2002 or so.
My modeline for cutting 1920x1080 in half to 960x540 at 60hz using cvt this:
--- Code: ---tc@box:~$ cvt 960 540 60
# 960x540 59.63 Hz (CVT 0.52M9) hsync: 33.51 kHz; pclk: 40.75 MHz
Modeline "960x540_60.00" 40.75 960 992 1088 1216 540 543 548 562 -hsync +vsync
--- End code ---
Not sure I can tell any difference, but if it's better for the monitor ....
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